by Edward St Aubyn · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782267019322
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«Le goût de la mère» is the psychological and family novel by Edward St Aubyn, published in 2007 in paperback by Christian Bourgois (304 pages, in French).
Patrick, in his forties, feels abandoned by Mary, who after their second child devotes herself exclusively to the children. His mother Eleanor, half-paralysed, is persuaded by a fake guru to leave her fortune and her house in the south of France to a New Age foundation. Patrick takes refuge in alcohol, tranquillisers and an old lover.
The novel received the Prix Fémina for foreign fiction in 2007. The French translation is by Anne Damour.
For readers of psychological and family fiction, especially those interested in family sagas and inheritances.
Edward St Aubyn is an English author and journalist. He is the author of eleven novels, including notably the semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels. In 2006, Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
